"The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling."

-- Lascelles Abercrombie

#Epic Quotes #Style Quotes #Matter Quotes

“You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.”
“What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.”
“A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.”

Source : "The City Within the City" by Leon Krier, zeta.math.utsa.edu. November 1977.
“I don't even like the word 'relax'! If I have a partner and we make love a lot, then I'm in a very pure state of being.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We need to value the importance of simplicity, focus and living according to our values.”
“I like to think I'm some savage realist.”
“The first presidential veto, by George Washington, was a veto of Alexander Hamilton's formula for apportioning the House, and the one that Washington preferred was one that Thomas Jefferson produced, and that was one partisan issue. The apportionment formula that Jefferson produced gave an extra seat to Virginia. Everybody knew what that game was. Look, partisan interest in the census is simply nothing new.”

Source : "Census, Uncensored". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. June 26, 2009.
“There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use.”

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